Bryn Deri Primary school pupils got a taste of wartime life when they took part in their very own evacuation.

The Year Six pupils, led by their teacher Miss Elizabeth Berry, were evacuated to Danescourt Primary school where they were met at the "billeting office" to be handed over to their new families.

The children have been studying different aspects of World War Two since they started Year Six, and have already made poppies, visited the Cenotaph in Cardiff, written soldiers’ poems and learned all about land girls, the Blitz and rationing among other war-related topics.

Their latest adventure saw the 24 pupils dressing up like wartime children and, complete with gas masks, suitcases and teddies, waving off their parents at the station, ready for a new life in “Danesbridge”.

The experience was designed to teach them what the children must have felt like when they were evacuated to go and live with other families during the war.

And Miss Berry, who has taught at the Radyr school for 10 years, said they certainly seemed to appreciate what it must have been like during the war.

She said: “I wanted to make learning about World War Two real and relevant and it certainly was. The children really enjoyed waving off their parents and grandparents from Radyr Station and then when they arrived at Danescourt Primary, it had been made into a billeting office and all their pupils were in families, such as the Bakers and Butchers.

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“Our pupils had to stand at the front and be picked, depending on whether they looked clean, or whether they looked useful and then they spent time chatting to the families before writing a letter home to say that they were happy, settled and OK.

“And then they were surprised by an air raid siren, and the Danescourt Primary school pupils showed them what to do. It was a fantastic afternoon and they are said they really enjoyed it.”

The Blitz evacuation was just part of a long series of World War-related outings, with the school choir also performing in Britten’s War Requiem alongside Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama undergraduates at St David’s Hall last weekend.